Word: bolsheviks
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When some 77 Germans were shot during Adolf Hitler's "blood purge," they at least were accused of plotting with that plug-ugly pederast Captain Ernst Roehm (TIME, July 9). Last week Josef Stalin resorted to more drastic Bolshevik Terror, terror in its purest form. Because a member of the Soviet Politbureau or Red Big Ten had been assassinated (TIME, Dec. 10), Soviet firing squads last week mowed down 66 Russians, one a woman, who were not accused of having anything to do with Assassin Leonid Nicolaev or his crime. According to dispatches passed by the Soviet censor, "they died...
...third degree, then into a monster Soviet propaganda trial and finally before a firing squad Last week the Gay-pay-oo were reported to have shot his 85-year-old mother, his wife, his daughters and his sons?in addition to the 66 executions of pure Bolshevik Terror...
...competent bombster and assassin in his youth, Joseph Stalin has provided Russia with the most thoroughly assassin-proof government it has ever had. Not since 1918 have Bolshevik leaders of any consequence been murdered, and Miss Dora Kaplan's shot at Nikolai Lenin in that year was not fatal. Last week the hearts of millions of White Russians leaped high. "It has begun!" they exclaimed. "At last Communists have begun to shoot their leaders in Russia...
Historic Smolny was founded in Tsarist days as a finishing school for aristocratic young ladies. Elegant isolation was to produce "a new species of humanity." In bloody October 1917, barrack-like Smolny became the stronghold from which Bolsheviks defied and finally conquered Kerensky. In the ex-finishing school's assembly hall met the Second All-Union Congress of Soviets to proclaim the Bolshevik Government and the World Revolution of the World Proletariat. For months Lenin and Trotsky lived and worked in schoolgirls' rooms at Smolny, signing death warrants, decrees and proclamations...
...this delicate juncture Ambassador Troyanovsky as never before needed to play the discreet diplomat. There are some things an ambassador simply does not say. Ambassador Troyanovsky said nearly all of them in an address last week to the Society of Old Bolsheviks, Moscow's most select club. The S. O. B. had invited him to submit to questions and give them the low-down on President Roosevelt and the New Deal. "Exactly why do you think President Roosevelt recognized the Soviet Union?" asked an Old Bolshevik...